In the face of declining college enrollment and increased budget cuts, the speech communication department at the University of Nebraska devised a successful strategy to preserve and promote itself within the university. Outside authorities were selected for a department review committee. At the graduate level, the areas of concentration were…

There are two philosophies concerning how teachers might best facilitate their students' acquisition of communication competence. The first, a skills-oriented philosophy, adopts a building-block approach to the acquisition of communication competence. Organizationally, a public speaking course might start with a unit on analyzing audience and…

Noting that only a fraction of the articles in speech journals have been concerned with the history of speech education in the United States, this annotated bibliography provides a broad guide to the materials necessary for understanding that history. The 45 citations are organized in six sections concerned with: (1) historical background; (2)…